The Apollo Theater and Manhattan School of Music will join forces to present Ask Your Mama, a 90-minute sonic tapestry of music, film, and spoken word by EmmyAward- winning composer Laura Karpman based on Langston Hughes’s “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz” that bursts the boundaries of time, place, and verbal expression to trace the currents and tributaries of cultural diasporas. Continue reading
Posted in Harlem, Harlem PLays, Harlem Theatre, Harlem World, Harlem World Magazine, Theater, Theatre
Tagged 12 Moods for Jazz, Apollo Theater, apollotheater, Ask Your Mama, “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz”, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Black Thought, Carnegie Hall, George Manahan, German lieder, Guestlove, Hollywood Bowl, Langston Hughes, Laura Karpman, Manhattan School of Music, Manhattan School of Music Chamber, Nnenna Freelon, Sinfonia, The Roots
In New York City, pick-up basketball is not just a sport. It is a way of life. There are 700+ outdoor courts, and an estimated 500,000 players, the most loyal of which approach the game as a religion, and the playground as their church. Continue reading
Posted in Sports, Basketball, Harlem sports, Harlem basketball
Tagged Rucker Park, Maysles Cinema, Basketball, Pee Wee Kirkland, The Roots, Julius "Dr. J" Erving, Kenny Smith, "Fly" Williams, God Shammgod, Tim "Headache" Gittens, Corey "Homicide" Williams, Kenny Anderson, Jack Ryan, Richard "Crazy Legs" Colon, Niki Avery, Milani Malik, Bobbito Garcia, Kevin Couliau, DJ Jaz, Donald Byrd and the Blackbyrds, Quantic Soul Orchestra
Larry Dunn, renowned original keyboard player from Earth, Wind & Fire, recently put his considerable talent to use while sitting in as a guest musician with The Roots on NBC-TV’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Continue reading
Wyclef Jean
The City Park’s Foundation SummerStage Spring Gala 2012 was a great night of music. On a beautiful Monday evening in early June, a number of artists performed the music of Jimi Hendrix. Continue reading
Sahr Ngaujah
On Monday June 7, cast members of the Broadway hit Fela! were in the mix at Brooklyn Bowl for the official Fela! On Broadway Original Cast Recording Release Party presented by the Knitting Factory. The two individuals who have taken on the huge responsibility of bringing Fela Anikulapo-Kuti to life in the play, Tony Award Nominated Sahr Ngaujah and Kevin Mambo were front and center greeting and mingling with guests. Cast members Iris Wilson and Tony Award Nominated Lillias White also joined in the festivities early on saying hello to everyone and posing for pictures. Continue reading
Posted in Broadway, Entertainment, Harlem, Salters Scene
Tagged ?uestlove, Brooklyn Bowl, Fela, Kevin Mambo, Knitting Factory, Lillias White, Sahr Ngaujah, The Roots, Tony Awards
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